Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
As a Planning Manager, you will lead the development, transformation, and continuous improvement of the SCS Planning Function, ensuring planning remains a key enabler of project delivery, programme assurance, change management, and project completion. You will act as a strategic partner to the Head of Planning, Delivery Units, Project Controls, Risk, Commercial, Technical Services, and PMO teams to ensure planning standards, governance, reporting, and systems are consistently applied across SCS.

Your responsibilities will include driving planning excellence, embedding the "One Team" planning culture, improving visibility of planning across the business, and integrating digital technologies and AI-enabled solutions. You will provide strategic leadership for Clause 32 processes, programme governance, planning standards, reporting development, Power BI integration, and cross-functional collaboration across the wider SCS structure.

Key duties include supporting the development and implementation of the SCS Planning Strategy and Planning Improvement Roadmap, leading the transition of planning processes and governance to align with the Delivery Unit structure, and assessing and recommending improvements to Clause 32 processes, programme reviews, planning governance, reporting frameworks, P6 structures, and planning assurance requirements. You will also develop long-term improvement initiatives that support successful project delivery and completion and act as a trusted advisor to the Head of Planning on planning strategies.

In addition, you will drive the implementation of a "One Planning Team" approach across SCS by developing and maintaining consistent planning procedures, standards, templates, working methodologies, and assurance arrangements. You will lead planning lessons learned, best practice reviews, and maturity assessments, facilitate planning workshops, collaboration forums, and continuous improvement initiatives, and promote consistency of planning outputs, reporting, and programme management practices across all Delivery Units.

You will lead the development of modern planning solutions and digital reporting capabilities, collaborating with IT and Data teams to enhance reporting through Power BI, develop data warehouse integration, improve planning automation, reduce manual reporting effort, and investigate and implement AI opportunities within planning, reporting, and project controls.

Experience
- Significant experience in planning and project controls within major infrastructure projects
- Extensive knowledge of NEC contracts and programme management
- Experience in Clause 32 programme submissions, programme governance, change management, PMO integration, risk management, and reporting development
- Advanced Primavera P6 capability
- Experience developing planning standards and procedures
- Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills

About you
You are a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams. You have a proactive approach to continuous improvement and digital innovation in planning. You are confident in driving change and embedding a culture of planning excellence.

Qualifications
Degree qualified in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or a similar discipline.